Fairview Cemetery Competitors

For over 100 years, more people have chosen Forest Lawn than any other funeral home in Southern California. We are honored to be the leader and are committed to the highest standards in everything we do. That is why we have a more varied and beautiful selection of cemetery property, a more personalized choice of memorial services, and a wider range of price options - creating an industry-leading set of products and services for our employees to offer. To learn more, visit www.forestlawn.com, find us on Facebook or call us at 800-204-3131.

Mount Auburn Cemetery has been designated a National Historic Landmark by the Department of the Interior, recognizing it as one of the country's most significant cultural landscapes. Founded in 1831, it was the first large-scale designed landscape open to the public in the United States. Today its beauty, historical associations and horticultural collections are internationally renowned. Our founders believed that burying and commemorating the dead was best done in a tranquil and beautiful natural setting at a short distance from the city center. They also believed that the Cemetery should be a place for the living, "embellishing" the natural landscape with ornamental plantings, monuments, fences, fountains and chapels. This inspired concept was copied widely throughout the United States, giving birth to the rural cemetery movement and the tradition of garden cemeteries. Their popularity led, in turn, to the establishment of America's public parks.

In 1892, Hamden Noble designed a beautiful garden cemetery after the grand garden cemeteries of the East Coast that would have an Endowment Care Trust to ensure that the beauty of this grand remembrance called Cypress Lawn would continue forever. Today, Cypress Lawn is that beautiful garden memorial, a thing of beauty forever perpetuated by the largest Endowment in Northern California. Cypress Lawn continues to be the premier provider of remembrance services that has added a new funeral, cremation, reception and flower shop facility to offer complete remembrance services to the families of San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area communities.